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Half the world lacks social protection amid climate crisis, ILO warns

·September 15, 2024·3 min read

Around 50 per cent of us do have access to at least one social protection benefit – but 3.8 billion people lack any kind of safety net, including 1.8 billion children worldwide, according to the World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal social protection for climate action and a just transition. “Climate...

UNICEF renews school protection call in Ukraine amid ‘deadly reality’ of attacks

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·September 7, 2024·4 min read

John Marks, interim UNICEF Representative in Ukraine, issued a renewed appeal for schools to be protected as war rages on. “During the first week of the new academic year, educational facilities in areas including Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Kyiv, Lviv and Sumy were reportedly damaged in attacks,” he said. “Evacuations across...

World News in Brief: Protection call for refugees in Pakistan, ‘One Health’ plan launched, radio waves saving lives

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·November 3, 2023·3 min read

According to news reports, Pakistani security forces began detaining and deporting dozens of Afghans under the new policy this week after a Government deadline for them to leave ran out. The majority of undocumented refugees who have settled in Pakistan over decades are from neighbouring Afghanistan, and following the Taliban...

Gaza crisis: General Assembly adopts resolution calling for ‘humanitarian truce’, civilian protection

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·October 28, 2023·1 min read

The resolution breaks the deadlock at the UN over a response to the Israel-Palestine crisis which erupted on 7 October, where Member States on the Security Council have failed to reach agreement on four draft resolutions. Click here for our coverage of the Assembly’s Emergency Special Session on the crisis....

Israel-Palestine: Protection of civilians ‘must be paramount’ in war Guterres tells Security Council

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·October 24, 2023·18 min read

UN News is winding down our live coverage of today’s events in the Council. For full blow by blow coverage of the debate so far and the dozens of speakers to come on the Israel-Palestine crisis, you can visit our special UN Meetings Coverage Section, here. Indonesia Retno Marsudi, Minister...

Niger spiralling into ‘protection crisis’ following takeover: UNHCR

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·August 29, 2023·2 min read

UNHCR’s representative in Niger, Emmanuel Gignac, said that sanctions imposed on the country by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) following last month’s military takeover do not include any exemptions for humanitarian aid. Mr. Gignac observed that food and commodity prices, already climbing before this crisis, jumped after...

During visit to Greece, UN official calls for enhanced refugee protection

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·July 30, 2023·1 min read

During the visit, Ms. Triggs mentioned that one of the worst shipwrecks in the Mediterranean happened just over a month ago. Protecting refugee rights “The Pylos tragedy and the other devastating tragedies in the Mediterranean underscore the primacy of saving lives and protecting the rights of people forced to flee....

Empowering women through social protection: UN rights office

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·July 23, 2023·2 min read

Social protection provides a safety net for the vulnerable through policies and programmes that offer financial assistance, healthcare coverage and social insurance. “It helps prevent social exclusion and promotes social inclusion,” said Mahamane Cisse-Gouro, Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division of human rights office OHCHR. Long-term...

Legal protection essential for people displaced by climate change: UN expert

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·June 27, 2023·1 min read

“The effects of climate change are becoming more severe, and the number of people displaced across international borders is rapidly increasing,” said Ian Fry, independent human rights expert on climate change, who took up the new post last year. “In 2020 alone, 30.7 million people were displaced from their homes...

Almost 3 million children ‘desperately need protection and support’ in Haiti

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·June 16, 2023·1 min read

“Being a child in Haiti today is harsher and more dangerous than it ever has been in living memory. The threats and hardships children face are simply unimaginable. They desperately need protection and support,” said UNICEF Haiti Representative Bruno Maes. Displacement and violence Children find themselves in the crossfire, or...

UN peacekeepers ‘a beacon of hope and protection’: Guterres

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·May 26, 2023·3 min read

He said the men and women that serve, from 125 countries, across 12 operations, were working to support security, stability and the rule of law. “They represent the beating heart of the United Nations’ commitment to peace”, said Secretary-General António Guterres. “By bringing peacekeepers together from around the world, peacekeeping has also become...

Sudan’s warring generals take ‘important first step’ on humanitarian protection

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·May 12, 2023·3 min read

Volker Perthes – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan and Head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the country (UNITAMS) – underscored that the rival military leaderships had agreed to respect international humanitarian and human rights law, and withdraw fighters from hospitals and medical facilities. Mr. Perthes...